basis as their camera location or backdrop for the evening news bulletins. Thus, the view from Jeffrey Street is instantly recognisable to millions of people. Because Jeffrey Street is immediately across the harbour from the city, many Sydney-based professional photographers showcase photographs of the city that they have taken from the street. The lookouts adjacent to Jeffrey Street are popular tourist destinations. The size of the crowds that often gather here to watch celebrations on the harbour now necessitates strong police and security presence. Jeffrey Street is also a celebrated location for weddings and wedding photographs. Ted Mack, at the time an Independent MP and formerly Mayor of North Sydney, was quoted as saying that it is one of the most important locations in Sydney. History of Jeffrey or Jeffreys Street, Kirribilli Pre-European history The Aboriginal tribe "Cammeraygal" lived in the Kirribilli and Milson's Point area. The area was a fertile fishing ground and the name "Kirribilli" is the Aboriginal word for "good fishing spot". Early European history Samuel Lightfoot Kirribilli was settled early in the history of the colony. One of the first records of land being granted on the "North Shore" was of on the "North side of the Harbour of Port Jackson opposite Sydney Cove" on 20 February 1794 to a convict, Samuel Lightfoot, whose sentence had expired. Lightfoot was born in about 1763 and was in his mid-twenties when he was transported to Australia for seven years for stealing clothing. He arrived with the First Fleet in 1788 on . The Colonial Secretary records (NSW State Records) that the land grant was cancelled and given to Robert Ryan in 1800 with no mention of the intermediate sale to Muir. After serving his sentence, Lightfoot did not stay in Kirribilli for long. He returned to England soon after his sentence expired and petitioned to be allowed to return with his wife, who however appears not to have sailed. Lightfoot subsequently returned to Australia on as a free settler, participating in the effort to establish a settlement at Port Phillip, near the modern city of Melbourne. When the settlement was abandoned, Lightfoot travelled on from Port Phillip, arriving in Tasmania in 1804. Lieutenant-Governor David Collins subsequently appointed Lightfoot supervisor of the hospital in Hobart Town. Lightfoot died in 1818 aged 65. There is no other known record of Lightfoot's time in Kirribilli. Nor is the exact location of